Oct., IQI2 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 3 



August 23, 1908, as a "rising and falling note," and on the one 

 of August 16, 1910, as "a low-pitched uniform note." This last 

 insect was probably not fairly under way, for pruinosa sometimes 

 only renders a zing note not getting up energy enough to zapc, 

 as stated in Entomological News for December, 1910. On 

 September 23, 1911, while on the bank of the canal below Plum- 

 mer's Island the writer heard a cicada singing that at the time 

 was supposed to be pruinosa, but may have been the species here 

 described as new. 

 Cicada winnemaima sp. n. 



Length: i 32 mm., to tip of wings 50 mm.; 5 30 mm., to 

 tip of wings 50 mm. Head black, anterior margin between the 

 eyes and an irregular stripe extending from below the central 

 ocellus on to the clypeus green. Pronotum including posterior 

 margin or collar green except the following: two triangular 

 spots each side of the central line, one to three tiny dots near the 

 central area, a spot on each lateral margin and hair streaks in the 

 deeper parts of the channelled surface which are black. The 

 mesonotum has the markings similar to pruinosa and linnei. 

 The abdomen is black above with the hind margins of the 

 segments more or less fulvous, the second segment having this 

 irregular band broader than the others. There are two white 

 pruinose spots at the base of the first segment, one on each side, 

 also a white streak hardly discernible each side at the base of 

 the third segment, and the usual white spot on each side of the 

 eighth segment. In the female the abdominal markings are far 

 less distinct than in the male and some are wanting. Beneath 

 the abdomen is pruinose, the central area being fulvous with 

 a narrow black stripe that usually does not reach to the end 

 of the abdomen as in linnei and pruinosa. The edges of the 

 stripe are not as parallel and well defined as in the last two men- 

 tioned species. The opercula are as broad as long. The genitalia 

 resemble those of pruinosa and linnei. 



In addition to the types and the thirteen paratypes from 

 Plummer's Island, Md., a single female from Raleigh, N. C, 

 received from Mr. Brimley, is in the collection of the author. 



Cicada winnemanna may be separated from pruinosa and 

 linnei by having the pronotum more green, the hind margins of 

 the abdominal segments fulvous on the dorsal surface, and by the 



